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following background document by Dr. Glyn Williams (Centre for European Research, Wales):
Project
rationale.
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NEXT SYMPOSIUM
6th Final Conference. 18 October 2012, European Parliament. Organised by Erasmushogenschool Brussel. For more information write to marialara.sanz.vicente AT ehb.be Conference website: http://taalkunde.ehb.be/eunom
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Previous activities:
SYMPOSIUM 5 in BARCELONA (Catalonia, Spain), 14-15 May 2012
This symposium has the following rationale:
The internationalization of training and the economy, studying and working in Europe, require
greater mobility, flexibility and expertise. ICT can play a very important part in preparing for
this. The fields of transmission and storage capacity constantly improve; the development of
Learning Management Systems and of Authoring Systems can help increase learning performance.
E-learning can make language learning more effective and more efficient when the technical
platforms perform and when implemented contents and training systems are appropriately adapted.
This symposium will discuss the key issues of technology-enhanced language and culture
learning and multilingualism. What are the educational, value-added dimensions of the available
technology and the methods based on this technology? How, for instance, can online communication or
online intercultural exchanges best be used for enhancing language learning and teaching? By
analyzing existing e-learning systems and their didactic implementation, it is hoped to define
parameters to evaluate them and to make recommendations: which technologies are complementary and
could be integrated, which training concepts can be adapted, which gaps still exist? The European
Commission could then define its core domains for further phases of the LLP.
The project website will stimulate discussion of the topic, thanks to draft papers which
will be uploaded well in advance of the planned symposium, and will be available long after in the
form of on-line Proceedings.
You can see the results of the Symposium (programme, abstracts and full papers, rapporteur's report, photographs) if you go to the " Results " page of this website.
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SYMPOSIUM 4 in BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND (UK) (14-15 November, 2011): "Multilingualism in the knowledge economy: Labour markets revisited, and corporate social responsibility".
SYMPOSIUM 3 IN KOPER / CAPODISTRIA, SLOVENIA (June 20-21, 2011): "Managing multilingual and multiethnic societies and institutions"
Globalisation promotes some devolution of governance to regions and makes international cooperation for resolving crises imperative. Sovereignty is undermined and new ways of managing diversity are needed as new spaces for language and identity open up. Individuals are freed from the institutional integration that structured their identity and relationship to language and culture. Individual freedom makes integration with collectivities a voluntaristic phenomenon. It’s a case of personal meanings and connotation related to the languages and cultures we have learned or we are aware of. New contexts for the revitalisation of regional languages emerge, and there is a demand for global lingue franche, and state non-lingue franche become diglossified. So technological development for business and the information society and new educational perspectives on multilingualism and interculturalism need to be considered.
As relations between the state, society and culture change, the interface between regional education systems, regional and international business and administrative contexts requires new management procedures. A European strategy for multilingualism must be rethought and presented for debate. We address such issues and invite business and administration to consider how best to restructure the role of language in institutional practice. The direct participation of local non-HE personnel will be required, as will indirect participation of other personnel through the open on-going on-line discussion.
The following themes will be focussed on in particular: (a) The multilingual policy in European contact areas: language policy at the level of state with special regards to border areas, minority and regional languages and immigrants; (b) Languages and identities: Multiple identities within global vision of political, social and cultural cooperation. New spaces for language and identity; and (c) Managing language diversity at work: global economy and local dimension of language use. Regional languages and “lingue franche” today: demand in global scale and response in local dimension to the language use.
SYMPOSIUM 2 IN LJOUWERT / LEEUWARDEN (November 18-19, 2010) "Higher education and research on multilingualism: challenge or opportunity?"
Universities’ role within their region is growing. ‘Learning regions’ models contribute to a region’s economic development, defining and exploring unique selling points, and serving the needs of its labour market, in an increasingly global and macroregional context. Research explores the interaction between the regional and the global level, can promote innovation and development, and needs to enhance linguistic diversity as of great relevance for society.
Globalisation and reflexive modernity give new contexts to language and education in the polity. In a global economy language education needs change. Reflexive modernity gives new bases for identity, and language is important here. So social scientists should look at language issues in analysing the new social and global context.
Universities need to develop comprehensive language policies to meet the needs of (a) their own students and staff and (b) others involved in exchanges.
The following themes will be focussed on in particular: (a) The relation between the regional and the global level. The possible impact of universities/research on society with regard to multilingualism; (b) The possible contribution of universities/EUNoM to language policy development within Europe; and (c) The multilingual university: language policy at the level of the institute.